Excerpt from The History of Modern Europe, Vol. 5: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the Progress of Society, From the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763; In a Series of Letters From a Nobleman to His Son Sir john Blunt propofes. Under pretence of lowering the ia tereft of the nat1onal debt, 'i' at the South Sea Company (hall become the fole public creditor 1 1720 Aft of Parliament procured for that purport, and books of fub fcription opened, for granting annuittes to fuch public cre ditors as might thtnk proper to cxcbange the [rarity of the crown for that of the snub-sea Company, with the chance Of the emoluments of their trade ibid. Rapid and exccflive rtfe of the flock of the south-sea Com. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.